illustratons of different strains of silvers that people generally got confused

[fong]

Originally Posted by infoate

Thanks for sharing. Can't help but to notice the scissors. What did you do with it?

HI,

it went for an eye operation. The hands belong to Dr Ark's.

[fong]

Originally Posted by Brichardi

Thanks for taking the trouble to shoot a video & close shot of the 'Snow'! Very nice specimen indeed. Looks like you give him a tank of its own ...must be your favourite piece ah?

It is still small.The others are so huge already so cannot comm..

Hard to get this one... better not risk mixing it..

[streetsmart73]

fong kor, thank you for sharing.

wow! you indeed do love the silvers

[Ronald]

Originally Posted by fong

http://www.kaitori-king-kong.com/products/list/10.html

This guy in japan sell snow at sgd 28k. See website attached. In lfs you may get lucky buying one..

Wah...then you ho-seh liao lor! Looking at a pile of cash swimming in your tank

[fong]

Originally Posted by Ronald

Wah...then you ho-seh liao lor! Looking at a pile of cash swimming in your tank

This piece is awesome.

[SilAro2]

hard to believe how nice all your Silvers are!!!

Super rare...

[aero27]

Hi i saw one silver today but the colour seems to be white n red...what shld it be classified as? The red is nice...

[fong]

Originally Posted by aero27

Hi i saw one silver today but the colour seems to be white n red...what shld it be classified as? The red is nice...

Take a pic

[Goodzilla1188]

thanks for sharing

[fong]

Originally Posted by aero27

Hi i saw one silver today but the colour seems to be white n red...what shld it be classified as? The red is nice...

Hi .. more young silver arowana will exhibit a certain redness on the trailing edge of its tail. As it matures the redness will disappear coz no adult arowana has red tail.

If you are talking about platinum. TheIr market value is around 1.5k to 4 k depending on the grade. I was chatting with this importer from USA. He said supplier generally will not sell hIm a plat or a snow unless he buy certain minImum order quality of normal arowana from them every year. So if someone offer u a cheap arowana .. most likely it's not a plat or snow coz they are rarity. You got to do reality check.

In China.. their platinum or snow is generally from black arowana . You tell them snow silver and they will say they thought snow only associated with black arowana only. To them silver is associated with albino silver.

Nowadays alot of white tank silver.. some of them can even exhibit snowy gill plates and the eye balls can even be Matt white. So make sure your arowana is in a dark color tank during display. If it is placed in white tank.. just put a small deposit .. ask the seller to put in black tank for a week and double confirm after 1 week before buying.

To differentrate snow and platinum.. just take it out of the water .. the platnum scales will be shinning and the snow will be Matt white. If you cannot take the fish out of water.. just off the tank light and see via the daylight. For snow will be Matt white.. for platinum is shinning.

Another sign To look for is the eyes.. the color separation of a snow eyes... black and Matt white contrast very distinct.

Hope this helps.